How do I dispose Kitchen waste and garden waste in an Eco friendly manner?

[MichelleAna1]

Garden waste disposal in an Eco friendly manner?

 

[atomicsmoke]

Compost: your own for vegetable waste and city's for meats/fats/bones.

 

[gmc2003]

Our dump has a bin set aside for food wastes. They ship it off to be composted.

Chris

 

[SonnyE]

You could read up on the various methods tried and used to compost.
But no meat should be put into composting, only vegetable and plant matter, and materials like goat, sheep, and cow manure and bedding.
Meat has to rot down, and will stink something awful.

A compost heap can be as simple as a pile you add to when your compost container fills. Just as the name implies, you take your container out and empty it on the heap.
And it grows to look like a heap, but under the surface it is all breaking down into some fine organic loam.

Some like to turn and turn their heap. I like to leave it alone and let nature take it's course. Then when the heap no longer has a wisp of steam rising from it on a clear cold morning, just under the surface lies Black Gold.
Wonderful, earthy smelling, ready to use compost.

There are plenty of other tried methods as well, large black plastic bags filled, closed, and left to break down. Composting drums you can fill, then turn like a cement mixer periodically to mix it up.
But I like to do the same thing nature does, just let the organic matter break down on its own in a heap. Like a forest floor.
And the steam from a heap is a natural occurring heat created by the material breaking down. It can get upwards of 140 degrees, and that kills any seeds in the heap. So weeds and grass clippings are welcome fodder to your heap.
Lots of books and articles written about composting. And most are good.
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[KrisUpInSmoke]

You could use a garbage disposal installed on your kitchen sink.

 

[SonnyE]

You could use a garbage disposal installed on your kitchen sink.

But maybe not if you are like mine is. Mines such a pain in the rear even sewer rats turn around and go find something easier.

 

[kelbro]

We use an Enviro-Cycle composter for the kitchen stuff and a larger one for garden stuff. Most of the stalks from the garden get tilled under once the plants quit producing.

 

[dward51]

I'm seriously considering building a compost/worm bed like this one. Composting & worm in the back and two levels of flowers or veggies up front for double duty. There is a whole series of videos this guy did on his compost/worm bed and the harvest he gets of worm casting from the decomposed/eaten garden & kitchen waste he puts in the bed.

 

[SlickRockStones]

I hate raccoons.